Tuesday, November 30, 2010

The Best of WikiLeaks until Now

One of the best leaks on Russia, America and the Caucasus - "Chechnya, the once and future war" from the author of the superb "Chechnya's ruler, a three-day wedding and a golden gun". This Burns should start writing books. American literature got a new great writer.

PS

I decided to discontinue this post because the leaks have turned into a flood. Maybe I will be updating this post now and then, but basically this post is finished. Here is a new leak and I decided to move to the top one of the previous since for me they seem to be connected.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emissaries also learn of a special "Iran observer" in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku who reports on a dispute that played out during a meeting of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. An enraged Revolutionary Guard Chief of Staff Mohammed Ali Jafari allegedly got into a heated argument with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and... and slapped him in the face because... because the generally conservative president had, surprisingly, advocated freedom of the press.

An unidentified Iranian businessman in Istanbul, Turkey, told U.S. diplomatic officials in August that election fraud was being led by "six or seven" Revolutionary Guard generals who were afraid they'd lose their power and privileges if Mousavi won.

Saudi King Abdullah told U.S. officials that Pakistan's President Zardari was incapable of reforming his country. "When the head is rotten it affects the whole body," the Saudi monarch said, according to a cable.

Turkey’s foreign policy has “Rolls Royce ambitions, but Rover resources” and Turks “can’t compete on equal terms” with either global or regional powers, former Ambassador to Ankara James Jeffrey said in a separate confidential document.

A solution to the Arab/Israeli conflict would be a great achievement, the [Saudi] King said, but Iran would find other ways to cause trouble. "Iran's goal is to cause problems," he continued, "There is no doubt something unstable about them." He described Iran as "adventurous in the negative sense," and declared "May God prevent us from falling victim to their evil."